xv, 617 pages ; 24 cm

Overview: The book is rich in material drawn from literature, aesthetics, religion, and philosophy. The extended chapters that give general descriptions of the types and definitions of Jung's principal psychological concepts are key documents in analytical psychology

Includes bibliographical references (pages 567-583) and index

Editorial note -- Foreword to the first Swiss edition -- Forewords to the seventh and eight Swiss editions -- Foreword to the Argentine edition -- Introduction -- Problem Of Types In The History Of Classical And Medieval Thought: -- Psychology in the classical age: the Gnostics, Tertullian, Origen -- Theological disputes of the ancient church -- Problem of transubstantiation -- Nominalism and realism: -- Problem of universals in antiquity -- Problem of universals in scholasticism -- Abelard's attempt at conciliation -- Holy communion controversy between Luther and Zwingli -- Schiller's Ideas On The Type Problem: -- Letters on the aesthetic education of man: -- Superior and the inferior functions -- Concerning the basic instincts -- Discussion on naive and sentimental poetry: -- Naive attitude -- Sentimental attitude -- Idealist and the realist -- Apollinian And The Dionysian -- Type Problem In Human Character: -- General remarks on Jordan's types -- Special description and criticism of Jordan's types: -- Introverted woman -- Extraverted woman -- Extraverted man -- Introverted man -- Type Problem In Poetry: -- Carl Spitteler: Prometheus and Epimetheus -- Introductory remarks on Spitteler's typology -- Comparison of Spitteler's with Goethe's Prometheus -- Significance of the uniting symbol: -- Brahmanic conception of the problem of opposites -- Brahmanic conception of the uniting symbol -- Uniting symbol as the principle of dynamic regulation -- Uniting symbol in Chinese philosophy -- Relativity of the symbol: -- Worship of woman and the worship of the soul -- Relativity of the God-concept in Meister Eckhart -- Nature of the uniting symbol in Spitteler -- Type Problem In Psychopathology -- Type Problem In Aesthetics -- Type Problem In Modern Philosophy: -- William James' types -- Characteristic pairs of opposites in James' types: -- Rationalism versus Empiricism -- Intellectualism versus sensationalism -- Idealism versus materialism -- Optimism versus pessimism -- Religiousness versus irreligiousness -- Indeterminism versus determinism -- Monism versus pluralism -- Dogmatism versus skepticism -- General criticism of James' typology -- Type Problem In Biography -- General Description Of The Types -- Introduction -- Extraverted type -- General attitude of consciousness -- Attitude of the unconscious -- Peculiarities of the basic psychological functions in the extraverted attitude -- Thinking -- Extraverted thinking type -- Feeling -- Extraverted feeling type -- Summary of the extraverted rational types -- Sensation -- Extraverted sensation type -- Intuition -- Extraverted intuitive type -- Summary of the extraverted irrational types -- Introverted type -- General attitude of consciousness -- Attitude of the unconscious -- Peculiarities of the basic psychological functions in the introverted attitude: -- Thinking -- Introverted thinking type -- Feeling -- Introverted feeling type -- Summary of the introverted rational types -- Sensation -- Introverted sensation type -- Intuition -- Introverted intuition type -- Summary of the introverted irrational types -- Principal and auxiliary functions -- Definitions -- Epilogue -- -- Appendix: Four Papers On Psychological Typology: -- Contribution to the study of psychological types (1913) -- Psychological types (1923) -- Psychological theory of types (1931) -- Psychological typology (1936) -- Table: Correlation of paragraph numbers -- Bibliography -- Index

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